Smoking habit overcome, and habit of sick headaches

Elizabeth A. McLellan

I first became interested in Christian Science through reading the testimonies in Sentinels brought to my home by a kind neighbor. Since these testimonies were all I seemed to be able to understand at first, they meant much to me.

At this time I was recovering from a major operation. I had been told that I would have to undergo another operation as soon as I was strong enough. The time was set for me to enter the hospital when I decided to wait a while and investigate Christian Science first, thinking, as one member of the family expressed it, "There may be something to this Science after all." I never did have the operation, but instead began teaching school in less than a month.

When I married, we lived several miles from any Church of Christ, Scientist, and since my husband was not interested in Science, I found myself drifting away from daily study of the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly and from church attendance. When a serious ailment developed, I had Science treatment for a while, but when there was no evidence of improvement, I consented to do as the family wished and have medical care. After a year's experience with the doctor I was much worse than when I started and was informed that although I would have to undergo an operation to live, I would never be well. I then took my radical stand for Christian Science, and after two months' treatment from a friend and practitioner I was healed and have never had a return of the trouble.

This healing caused my husband to become interested in Christian Science, and we have both enjoyed many benefits.

When we decided to make application for class instruction, my husband was told he would have to give up smoking. This he thought was impossible, as he had smoked for years and thought he derived great pleasure from the habit. But since he was very eager to have class instruction, he asked the teacher to give him treatment. All desire to smoke left him overnight, and he never smoked again.

It would take many pages to tell of all the healings I have witnessed and experienced. One healing for which I have always been grateful was of sick headaches. One night I was suffering so much I could not sleep, so I awakened my husband and asked him to help me. He silently went to work, and in ten minutes I was asleep and have never had a return of that trouble.

I am deeply grateful for the privilege of class instruction. I am also happy to have had the opportunity to serve a branch church in various capacities. Church work pays big dividends in joy and satisfaction.

Recently I have lived where it has been impossible to attend church, so the periodicals have been my only contact with church work, and I have loved them more than ever. I am grateful to Mrs. Eddy for her faithful and consecrated work in establishing this demonstrable religion.—(Mrs.) Elizabeth A. McLellan, Mitchellville, Iowa.

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